Chester Bennington

Net Worth

$30,000,000

Born in (City)

Arizona

Born in (Country)

United States of America

Date of Birth

20th December, 1976

Date of Death

20th December, 2017

Mother

Susan Elain Johnsan

Father

Lee Russell Bennington

Children

Lily Bennington
Lila
Tyler Lee Bennington
Draven Sebastian
Isaiah
Jaime

About

Chester Charles Bennington (March 20, 1976 – July 20, 2017) was an American artist, lyricist, artist, and entertainer. He was most popular as the lead vocalist for Linkin Park and was likewise lead vocalist for the groups Gray Daze, Dead by Sunrise, and, somewhere in the range of 2013 and 2015, Stone Temple Pilots. Bennington has been acknowledged by a few distributions as one of the best stone vocalists of his age. Bennington originally picked up noticeable quality as a vocalist following the arrival of Linkin Park’s presentation collection Hybrid Theory (2000), which was an overall business achievement. The collection was guaranteed Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2005, making it the top-of-the-line debut collection of the decade, just as one of only a handful barely any collections ever to accomplish that numerous deals. Linkin Park’s following studio collections, from Meteora (2003) to One More Light (2017), proceeded with the band’s prosperity.

Early Life

Chester Charles Bennington was conceived on March 20, 1976, in Phoenix, Arizona. His mom was a medical attendant, while his dad was a police investigator who took a shot at kid sexual maltreatment cases. Bennington checked out music at a youthful age, referring to the groups Depeche Mode and Stone Temple Pilots as his most punctual motivations. what’s more, longed for turning into an individual from Stone Temple Pilots, which he later accomplished when he turned into their lead vocalist. Bennington was a survivor of sexual maltreatment from a more seasoned male companion when he was seven years of age. He was reluctant to request help since he didn’t needs individuals to think he was gay or lying, and the maltreatment proceeded until he was 13 years of age. A long time later, he uncovered the victimizer’s personality to his dad, however decided not to seek after him after he understood the victimizer was a casualty himself. Bennington’s folks separated when he was 11 years of age. The maltreatment and his circumstance at home influenced him so much that he wanted to flee and execute individuals. To comfort himself, he drew pictures and composed verse and melodies. After the separation, Bennington’s dad picked up care of him. Bennington began mishandling liquor, cannabis, opium, cocaine, meth, and LSD. He was truly tormented in secondary school. In a meeting, he said that he was "thumped around like a cloth doll at school, for being thin and appearing to be unique". At 17 years old, Bennington moved in with his mom. He was prohibited from going out when his mom found his medication action. He worked at Burger King before beginning his vocation as an expert performer.

Road to Success

Bennington framed his own band, Dead by Sunrise, as a side task in 2005. The band’s introduction collection, Out of Ashes, was delivered on October 13, 2009. He turned into the lead vocalist of Stone Temple Pilots in 2013 to deliver the all-encompassing play record High Rise on October 8, 2013, by means of their own record mark, Play Pen, however, left in 2015 to concentrate exclusively on Linkin Park. As an entertainer, he showed up in movies, for example, Crank (2006), Crank: High Voltage (2009), and Saw 3D (2010). Bennington initially started singing with a band called Sean Dowdell and His Friends? also, together they delivered an eponymous three-track tape in 1993. Afterward, Dowdell and Bennington proceeded onward to shape another band, Gray Daze, a post-grit band from Phoenix, Arizona. The band recorded a Demo in 1993 and two collections: Wake Me in 1994, and ...No Sun Today in 1997. Bennington left Gray Daze in 1998. Bennington was disappointed and almost quit his melodic profession inside and out when Jeff Blue, the VP of craftsmen and collection at Zomba Music in Los Angeles, offered him a tryout with the future individuals from Linkin Park (at that point ’ Xero’). Bennington quit his normal everyday employment at a computerized benefit firm and took his family to California, where he had a fruitful tryout with Linking Park, who were then called Xero. He figured out how to record the melody for his tryout in a day, missing his own birthday festivity all the while. Bennington and Mike Shinoda, the band’s other vocalist, gained noteworthy ground together, yet neglected to discover a record bargain. In the wake of confronting various dismissals, Blue, presently a VP of specialists and collection at Warner Bros., interceded again to enable the band to sign with Warner Bros. Records.

Challenges

Bennington was tormented with unexpected frailty during the creation of Meteora and attempted to go to a portion of the collection’s chronicle meetings. In the mid-year of 2003, he started to experience the ill effects of extraordinary stomach torment and gastrointestinal issues while shooting the music video for "Numb" in Prague. He had to come back to the United States for a medical procedure and shot the rest of the music video in Los Angeles. Bennington continued a wrist injury in October 2007 while endeavoring to bounce off a stage during a show in Melbourne at the Rod Laver Arena. Notwithstanding the injury, he kept on playing out the whole show with a wrecked wrist, before going to the trauma center where he got five fastens. In 2011, Bennington became sick once more, and Linkin Park had to drop three shows and reschedule two from the A Thousand Suns World Tour. Bennington harmed his shoulder during the band’s visit in Asia and was exhorted by specialists to have a quick medical procedure, dropping their last show at Pensacola Beach, Florida, and closure their visit. Bennington harmed his lower leg in January 2015 during a ball game. He endeavored to adapt to the injury and perform with the guide of bolsters and a knee bike. Linkin Park later dropped the rest of their visit to permit Bennington to experience the medical procedures and recoup.

Achievements

Quotes

I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping.
I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.